We got "promoted"

[question everything]

In addition to the usual calls about our credit cards, or "replying to inquires" or from "Nancy, our Medicare patient advocate" we now hear, as we answer: grandpa! or grandma!

I just hang up. Spouse replies You are a scammer! and than hangs up.

Sometimes I wonder, since the goal is to provide directions on how to send money, whether it can help if I use my cell phone to call the police and let them on the conversation, if the "guidelines" can assist in catching the scammers but am not sure.

[delisen]

1. Thanks for posting. This is an epidemic.

[woodsprite]

2. If I don't have time to play with them, I just tell them to "F**k off and scam someone else."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. I have not gotten one of those

"Grandma!" calls. I wonder if the people making them do a bit of research to determine if the person they're calling actually has grandchildren. I don't, and I'm reasonably certain that if I didn't I wouldn't fall for that scam.

[question everything]

4. Neither do we. Which is why this is so stupid.

But, give it time..